Ms. Anca Dragan

Education & Work

School

Carnegie Mellon University CS

Class

2015

Area of Study

Computer Science

Scholar Degree

Ph.D.

Current Employer

UC Berkeley

Current Title

Assistant Professor

Professional Interests & Experience

Bio

Anca Dragan has a tenure-track position at UC Berkeley in EECS and started the InterACT Lab. Prior, Dragan was a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, and a member of the Personal Robotics Lab. She was born in Romania and received her B.Sc. in Computer Science from Jacobs University Bremen in 2009. Her research lies at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and human-computer interaction: she is interested in enabling robots to seamlessly work with and around people. In the past, Anca has worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Mathematics doing research on constrained discrete optimization for timetable scheduling, at UCLA (in collaboration with the LAPD) doing research on geoprofiling, and at Intel Labs Pittsburgh doing research on constrained trajectory optimization for motion planning. Anca is an Intel PhD Fellow, a Dan David Prize Scholar for 2014, and a Google Anita Borg Scholar for 2012, and serves as General Chair in the Quality of Life Technology Center’s student council.